Decor Sales Consultants

Job Purpose:Maximise sales opportunities and provide excellent customer service in a professional and friendly manner within our upmarket showroom. Enhance the customer experience from pre-sale through to post-sale. Provide valuable advice on fabrics, finishes and accessories selling the Weylandts concept.

Main accountabilities:

Sales & Income generation.

Consistently achieves monthly sales targets as well as Homeware and Corporate targets on a monthly basis.

Maximise all sales through variety of internal and external innovative methods (e.g. new local developments etc).

Work with and build up relationships with Corporate Clients and Decorators providing excellent customer service.

Acts as the single point of contact for the customer for questions, stock enquiries, ensuring efficient product tracking for timely shipment and delivery of goods purchased as well as overseeing installation of high value orders when required.

The successful candidate is to ensure all payments are processed timeously.

Follow up on outstanding orders, previous order transactions, and customer service recons.

Ensure that when selling from floor that correct procedures are followed, in terms of Administration and that correct product care info is provided.

Technical Skills:Must have a passion for Interior Décor and proven sales track record within a similar environment. Your corporate and decorator network will enable you to make an immediate contribution within this exciting role.

Key Behavioural Competencies:

The job holder must be able to demonstrate a positive, hands-on, can-do attitude, pro-active ability. He or she must take responsibility for their work, be a team player, be accurate and have excellent customer relation and communication skills.

The candidate must also be able to work well under pressure, manage difficult customers efficiently, have a valid driver’s license, as well as their own transport and be able to add value to the Weylandts shopping experience. Good level of fitness and general health required.

If you meet this criteria, please email us your CV immediately. We look forward to hearing from you!

If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of your application, please accept that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Please email your CV to jobs@weylandtshome.co.za.

Spatial Designer

Area : DurbanvilleDate :

CAREER DESCRIPTION :

In-store Spatial Designer
A Spatial designer is involved in the design or renovation of internal spaces, including structural alterations, furnishings, fixtures and fittings, lighting, layout and colour schemes. At Weylandts this role involves designing the “blue print” for Weylandts retail branches by designing floor plans/planning layouts of furniture & Homeware settings to maximise product visual appearance and enhance sales. Responsible for all stores in the group ensuring that layouts are consistent throughout the country and that the Weylandts brand is maintained.

Main accountabilities:

Ensuring that the layout of each store in the group is designed in a consistent manner and that all local staff understand the furniture layouts/settings and product options to ensure the “look” is maintained. Regularly updating existing floor plans in AutoCAD.

The bulk of this ongoing work is done in the running up to the annual national revamp role out, which includes drafting relevant lists of furniture to be sent to /removed from /sold off store floors product lists.

Assisting maintaining the stores through regular scrutiny of photographs sent from stores, alternative suggestions made for furniture replacement when required, assisting in refreshing and remerchandising homeware walls with new and existing homeware, ensuring that areas maintain a fresh appeal throughout the stores at all times. Ensuring new products integrated into store settings on ongoing basis. Coming up with new ideas in which to show product on the floor, in windows and cameo settings to maximize the store space and it’s selling appeal, how to turn dead areas in the stores around or how to up sales on items that are not moving

Integration of new homeware – contact sheets of new and repeat homeware & related floor plans indicating their placement into relevant homeware shelving & display tables are prepared & sent out to stores.

Installation and in-store promotions planning: in collaboration with Marketing and Design.

Technical Skills:A 2 year diploma in Interior Design is pre-requisite as well as excellent technical knowledge of design software e.g. Autocad, SketchUp (or similar 3D software) as well as Photoshop. Three years working experience in the interior field is ideally required. He or she will demonstrate a passion for interior décor & design; will be creative & passionate about the Weylandts brand, eager to use their skills to maximise the brand look and sales potential. A keen interest in keeping up to date with new developments in the design industry is essential. Comprehensive Microsoft office skills are required. This role will require a driver’s license.

Competencies:Must be able to demonstrate positive hands on, can-do attitude. He or she must be able to work independently, yet be a team player. They must be positive, energetic, a self-starter and have excellent problem solving and decision-making skills. Being able to work well under pressure and produce high quality work is pre-requisite.

If you meet this criteria, please email us your CV immediately. We look forward to hearing from you!

If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks of your application, please accept that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Please email your CV to jobs@weylandtshome.co.za.

Retail Storeman & Maintenance Assistant

Weylandts is a world-class contemporary interior décor and furniture retailer with branches throughout South Africa, Namibia and now in Melbourne, Australia. We are looking for an energetic individual to work in our Abbotsford showroom.

We offer:

· A dynamic, cutting-edge environment

· Beautiful working space

· Competitive basic salary with bonus potential

· Staff discount

· Good retail hours (20 per week on roster)

Our position:

This role is responsible for all showroom maintenance and storeroom activities. These include receiving deliveries, quality checking, and dispatching goods to be returned to the Distribution Centre and customer collections, ensuring that correct processes and paperwork is followed. Maintenance in the showroom / house-keeping of the storeroom is also part of the responsibilities as well as moving furniture & homeware onto our showroom floor. This position reports to the Showroom Manager.

Please confirm retail prices in store; prices are subject to change without prior notice. Products subject to availability. Weylandts products are handcrafted and actual product weights and look may vary. Shipping costs are not included in the product price displayed and will be calculated separately according to weight and volume of the product. Prices provided on this website are for Australian stores only.